Despite the pandemic, approximately sixty primary schools, took part in an engineering challenge as part of British Science week supporting the \u2018Big Beam In\u2019 run by DETI (Digital Engineering Technology & Innovation Initiative). The challenges were planned by teacher education and engineering students from UWE Bristol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the live teaching by our students in schools, the children were given an engaging engineering challenge supported by videos from the engineers on what it is like being an engineering student and also explaining the science in their task. Other schools were sent teaching packs with activities and videos from the teacher and engineers. Some of engineers\u2019 videos can be seen on Youtube at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL9z52T1dzQlb-Q4UiNnfloq4R7BPLply_<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The aim of the project is to develop communication and outreach skills in engineers and to give the education students an experience of planning and teaching an engineering task in schools. The children will get an understanding of the broad range of engineering careers as well as exposure to everyday role models studying engineering and talking about why it interests them. Elizabeth Hadlington (Yr 2 Primary Education) said this was \u2018an exciting opportunity to gather an insight into engineering allowing us to inspire young minds and create opportunities for the future\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For further details please contact juliet.edmonds@uwe.ac.uk<\/a> or Fay.lewis@uwe.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The image is a slide from UWE students Charlie Simmonds (Yr 2 Primary Education) and Noble Varghese ( Yr 3 Engineering) for KS1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite the pandemic, approximately sixty primary schools, took part in an engineering challenge as part of British Science week supporting the \u2018Big Beam In\u2019 run by DETI (Digital Engineering Technology & Innovation Initiative). The challenges were planned by teacher education and engineering students from UWE Bristol. For the live teaching by our students in schools, … Continue reading “Covid- Proof Engineering in Schools”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,35,126],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applied-use-of-technologies","category-curriculum-innovation","category-science-education","tag-science-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}